🇫🇷 José Ibanez

José Ibanez holds a Racer Rating of 2,901, placing him in the competitive amateur band; this is the level of club racing and the entry end of professional-am competition, where drivers race against established professionals but do not consistently compete at their level. Ibanez was classified as FIA Bronze, the amateur grading within sportscar and endurance racing that denotes a gentleman driver typically racing alongside professionals rather than among them.[1]

Ibanez's racing record consists of a single start in the 2008 World Endurance Championship for Ibanez Racing at an unspecified round, where he finished P47 and scored no points. Despite the limited data, that single outing placed him ahead of several much stronger drivers in that race; he beat Ho-Pin Tung, a FIA Gold driver and 2018 WEC LMP2 champion; Mikhail Aleshin and Scott Sharp, both FIA Platinum professionals; and Ryan Dalziel, another Platinum-graded driver. These were isolated results from a single race, however, and do not indicate a sustained competitive pattern. The team fielded only three drivers across its recorded history, none of whom achieved wins; its strongest driver, Ivan Bellarosa, holds a professional-level rating.

Ibanez is now retired from motorsport. His career lasted only the 2015 season and comprised a single event, placing him at the very entry level of international sportscar racing.